SElFIE FORBIDDEN IN VIRGINIA POllING BOOTH
If you want to share your voting experience on social media, you’ll have to find some way other than taking a photo in the voting booth. West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E Tennant says it’s forbidden.
Tennant said in a news release that it’s illegal to photograph any part of the voting process, and no electronic devices or cellphones are allowed in the voting booth. She says signs are posted in every West Virginia precinct, and poll workers have been instructed to tell people not to have devices out while voting.
The early voting period began a week back. Voters may cast their ballots during regular business hours and the following Saturday at their county courthouse, courthouse annex or community voting location designated by the county.
(AP)
WOMAN RETURNS lIBRARY BOOK 67 YEARS lATE
A woman in New Zealand returned a book that she had checked out from a library more than 60 years ago. Epsom Community library shared a photo of the book, including the checkout slip which featured the date December 17, 1948.
“A wonderful customer came to see us with a confession today! As a child she was a patron of Epsom library until she moved out of Auckland — and accidentally took a library book with her!” The post read.
The book was returned in “excellent well-read” condition and librarian Zoe Cornelius told the Guardian that the woman would not incur any late fees on the book, because children were not charged late fees.
“She told me she had checked out the book as a child and been meaning to return it for years,” Cornelius said. “She seemed a bit embarrassed but I was pleased because she said she had read and enjoyed the book many times over the decades and that made me happy – that the book had been in a good home and loved.”
Had the woman been an adult when she checked the book out she would have accumulated about $17,000 in late fees.
(Huffington Post)
WOMAN PROBABlY SMUGGlED COCAINE IN HER PRIVATE PARTS
Customs officials have arrested a 24-year-old woman they said tried to smuggle a half-pound of cocaine in her vagina. Shekira Thompson was arrested last Sunday at Kennedy Airport after she got off a plane from Kingston, Jamaica, according to NJ.com.
Thompson presented herself for inspection after getting off the plane. Officials then took her to a private search, according to a release from the U.S. Customs Dept. Investigators said when they questions Thompson, she admitted to inserting a foreign object into her body.
A short time later, officers found an egg-shaped container they said contained a white powdery substance that tested positive for cocaine. The weight of the powder was about a half-pound and had an estimated street value of $10,000, according to the release.
(Huffington Post)
OCTOPUS REMOVED FROM TODDlER’S THROAT
A 2-year-old Kansas boy was in serious condition last week after doctors removed a small octopus from his throat, authorities said.
The boyfriend of the boy’s mom was arrested and held on suspicion of child abuse in the incident over a week back in Wichita, according to police records and police sources who spoke to NBC station KSNW. The boy’s 21-year-old mother found her 36-year-old boyfriend about 9:39 pm (10:39 pm ET) performing CPR on the child, who wasn’t breathing.
Police documents say the boy was transported to a hospital, where an “obstruction” was removed from his throat. Police told KSNW that the object was a small octopus that appeared to be intended for preparation as sushi.
(NBC News)
MAN TURNS HIMSElF IN FOR STEAlING TV IN 1989
A 60-year-old Florida man returned to Connecticut to turn himself for stealing a colour TV. What is intriguing about it is that he had stolen it 27 years ago.
After his admission, Randy Iannacone, hailing from Port St lucie, was booked on third-degree larceny charges, according to the Norwalk, Conn., police. Iannacone was subsequently released with no bail and with a promise to appear in court for his case on a stipulated date.
According to police the theft took place the Norwalk Jewish Center, which has since closed, on April 26, 1989. The Norwalk police issued a warrant for Iannacone but they were unable to locate him, and the warrant was not served until Iannacone arrived himself at the police station confessing his decades old crime.
(NBC news)